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Vol. 28, No. 14 Public Li brary Terrace Ba Scr School Board to decide fate of Schreiber School The future of the high school in Schreiber will be decided by the Board of Education on Tues- day, April 26 at the high school in Schreiber. The Board met last Thursday night in Mara- thon to review the Allan Report. The first of its twenty-six Recommend- ations is "that the Board maintain the two cam- pus organization for the Lake Superior High School," and names the Lake Superior Board as the body responsible for carrying out that Recom- mendation. In his second Recom- mendation, Allan calls on the Minister of Edu- cation to provide addi- tional funding for north- ern schools. "That the Ministry increase the school weighting factor by introducing an iso- lated school factor." A spokesman for the Min- ister of Education in Toronto said that the Recommendation had already been acted on in changes announced this spring to the provincial grant structure for northern school boards. He went on to say that after the Report had been reviewed and com- ments received from other northern Boards, further changes in the funding could be expect- ed. The Board was told Thursday night that the preliminary costs indi- cated that the recom- mended change would mean an_ additional $250,000 a year to the Board for the operation of its schools. One year ago this month, on April 7, the former Lake Superior Board of Education vot- ed to close the Schreiber Campus on the grounds that the operation was costing too much money to run. The decision set off a series of events culminating in the ap- pointment of the Allan Commission of Inquiry and a dramatic change in the make up of the Board in the November elections. Many of the argu- ments that raged at that time were in evidence again on Thursday night. Trustees from Schreiber, Terrace Bay and Manitouwadge said that the key to the whole Report was contained in Allan's finding that maintaining the Schrei- ber campus '"'is in the best interests of the students, the staff, and the two communities."' The two Trustees from Marathon agreed | but said that they were not prepared to vote in favour of retaining the school until the Board actually had the money in hand. Both ° Mara- thon Trustees. said that they did not believe that the Minister would in- crease the funding. They suggested that it would be appropriate to leave the Closure in place, but to delay it by a further year. Trustees from Manitouwadge, Terrace Bay and Schrei- ber reacted strongly to the suggestion. Trustees Delaney said, that would do nothing to alleviate the tensions in the town of Schreiber."' Terrace Bay Trustee Joan Nugent said that she would not support keeping the school open whether the Ministry in- creased the grants to pay for its operation or not. She said any in- crease in funding pro- vided by the Ministry to maintain the school as a result of the fight by Schreiber to keep the campus open and the Allan Report Recom- mendation to double the weighting factor, could be put into the pro- grams in the other schools in the Board if Schreiber could be clos- ed. On other issues raised in the Report, the Trust- ees seemed to be in general agreement. Representatives from Manitouwadge said that there is still a strong feeling in parts of their community in favour of breaking the Board up and allowing Manitou- . wadge to have its own Board of Education. Fa- ther Larry Winslow said, 'However, that doesn't mean that we are not going to do our best to make this present Board work. I'm _ sure that every community has its bottom line beyond which it is not prepared to go." Marathon Trust- ee Pat Richardson, who had earlier called for the break up of the Board, described her actions as something that "hap- pened in the heat of the moment."' One section of the Report that drew special attention was the sen- tence that said, "At pre- sent, the Lake Superior Board of Education seems to be on a course of self-destruction. The Trustees have split into two opposing groups. Distrust between the sides is rampant and all parties would rather split up the Board than compromise and co- operate. The only bright spot is that if the issues of the closing of the Schreiber high school and of the housing policy are settled, there could be co-operation."' Marathon Trustee Bob Cheetam said that he felt the press had unfairly emphasized this section. "Since Roger was here, I think a lot of things have been com- ing together." Manitou- continued on page 3 Winston Lake Mine Speculation about the construction of a mine at Winston Lake near the old Zenmac site north of Schreiber continues. An analyst with the Northern Miner, a news- paper often referred to as the bible of mining, said Friday from Toron- to, '"Essentially they are building a mine there. Whether you are going to get them (Falcon- bridge Copper) to say that officially is another question."' The timing of the actual construction re- mains in doubt. "You're talking about the base metals market and things are not too hot there." A story carried in the Financial Post last month said, "A prelim- inary estimate for the Winston Lake mine, based on drilling carried out to the end of 1982, is in the order of three million metric tons aver- aging 13.5 per cent zinc and 1 per cent copper. The company says it may be possible to se- lectively mine a higher grade portion, about 1.5 million tons with a grade of 23 per cent zinc and 1 per cent copper. The drill indicated tonnage has more than likely been expanded substantially since the year end as drilling con- tinues. The mineralized zone at Winston Lake is on claims optioned from Zenmac Explorations Ltd. Large scale explora- tion for gold is taking place this spring north of Terrace Bay. Large areas have been staked, although no large scale finds have been announ- ced in what is being referred to as the Ter- race Bay Gold Rush. Local skaters compete at national competitions The Super Superiors Precision Skating Teams competed against some of the skating power- houses last weekend in two major precision competitions held in London, Ontario. Al- though they finished out of the medals, they skat- ed strong performances in each event they had entered. Their first compe- tition was in the Cana- dian International Pre- cision Skating Compe- tition, an invitational event which attracted 87 teams and more than 2000 skaters from across Canada and the United States. The Super Superiors had teams en- tered in the Novice and Junior Divisions. The Novice Team skated a crowd-pleasing performance and man- aged a Sth placing in their flight. The winner of this flight went on to win the Novice Cham- pionships. The Junior Team also skated well in another tough flight and placed 8th. The second compe- tition was the 1st Cana- dian Precision Cham- pionships which was held Easter Sunday, at the Thompson Arena, University of Western Ontario. In order to qualify for this cham- pionship each of the 60 teams entered had to place in their sectional finals. The Super Super- iors qualified for the Novice Division by plac- ing 1st in the sectionals held at North Bay in February. On Sunday, they once again skated a strong performance, im- proving on their total points from Friday and placed 4th in their flight. Teams representing London, Edmonton and Vancouver placed ahead of them. The London and Edmonton teams placed 1st and 3rd in the finals in the Novice Divi- sion. It is interesting to note that the judge from Vancouver placed the Super Superiors 1st in this flight. The 1300 skaters competing in the Cana- dians attended a re- ception at the Holiday Inn, hosted by the Cana- dian Figure Skating As-» sociation, and they, to- gether with their coach- continued on page 16 The Super Superiors Precision skating team with coach Paul Wirtz.